: Pantalone: There it is.

Pasquale is recognizable as the blustery Pantalone, Ernesto as the lovesick Pierrot, Malatesta as the scheming Scapino, and Norina as a wily Columbina.

Ruffiana is most often romantically involved with Pantalone, though his love may easily be unrequited if it suits the plot.

Pantalone, or Pantalone de ' bisognosi, Italian for ' Pantalone of the needy ', is one of the most important principal characters found in commedia del arte.

With his exceptional greed and status at the top of the social order, Pantalone is " money " in the commedia world.

" Pantalone is thought to be greatly based on the old Venetian merchants of the time, known for their stingy and less-than-pleasant personalities.

The character of Pantalone is entirely based on money and ego, for he has the highest regards for his intelligence, " but at every step he becomes the butt for every conceivable kind of trick ".

With little else to occupy his thoughts after a life as a tradesman or merchant, Pantalone is the metaphorical representation of money in the commedia world.

Pantalone is usually the father to one of the lovers, another stock character found in commedia.

Pantalone never forgets a deal and his merit is based on actions, not words.

Despite his sinister and often inhumane treatment towards his fellows, Pantalone is perceived to be a pivotal part of commedia.

The traditional Pantalone stance is that of a hunch-backed old man.

For example, the school principal in the film Sixteen Candles ( 1984 ) is an interpretation of the Pantalone character, for his goal is to keep the two main characters from being together and to maintain some type of control of his school.

On the television show The Simpsons, Mr. Burns, owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the richest citizen of Springfield, is perhaps the epitome of the Pantalone character.

Pantalone is one of the most complex characters found in commedia dell ' arte and is arguably the most important character in any commedia production.

His interaction in the play is usually mostly with Pantalone, either as a friend, mentor or competitor.

Smitherman urged strategic voting and repeatedly asserted that " a vote for Joe Pantalone is a vote for Rob Ford ".

Joe Pantalone ( born 1952 ) is a former Canadian politician, city councillor for Ward 19, one of two wards in Trinity — Spadina.

Born in the town of Racalmuto, Sicily, Italy to a sharecropping father, Joe Pantalone is the second oldest of 7 children.

The Lovers are usually the children of either Dottore or Pantalone.

Smitherman repeatedly asserted that " a vote for Joe Pantalone is a vote for Rob Ford ", but Pantalone refused to bow out despite pressure.

Pantalone, who is also often referred to as " Joey Pants ", immigrated to Canada with his family at age thirteen.

During his career, Pantalone served on numerous committees for Toronto City Council.

The Zanni at first wore a full faced carnival mask, but because of the need for dialogue between Pantalone and the Zanni, the bottom of the mask was hinged and eventually cut away altogether.

::( Zanni tries to snatch the coin but Pantalone grabs it back at the last moment )

Smitherman held 21. 3 %, Joe Pantalone 16. 8 %, Rocco Rossi stood at 9. 7 % and Sarah Thomson at 6. 4 %.

In his campaign, Pantalone highlighted his 29 years of experience in municipal politics compared to other candidates, saying, " People are looking around at the outsiders and think their experience does not match mine "; he also said the approach to the city's finances should be " clinical as opposed to a sledgehammer.

The presence of slapstick in this part of the show is not at all surprising considering the characters are all based on those found in Italian Commedia dell ' arte, a somewhat improvised, comedic form of travelling theatre consisting of various stock characters including Arlecchino, Colombina, Pantalone, and Pulcinella.

In a commedia comedy, many zanni or lazzi routines will begin by an action delivered by Pantalone himself.

The eighteenth century audiences were used to seeing a comic Shylock, often dressing him in a red wig and a large nose, resembling the commedia dell ’ arte character Pantalone.

* Pantalone, a character in the Italian commedia dell ' arte

If you want that, call Mr. Ford ,” who is a “ bulldozer ” while Smitherman is an “ axe ” and a “ diminisher .”" Pantalone was also the only candidate who rejected contracting out more services now done by city employees.

On his promise to freeze property taxes for seniors, Pantalone expressed the opinion that the loss of this revenue could be made up elsewhere, saying: " If you distribute that across the whole tax base, people won ’ t even know that it has happened ".

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

And the action is consistently presented with regard for this distinction.

How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.

A good example of the results obtainable with ultrasonic radiation is contained in papers presented by Dr. G. Baum who has explored the human eye.

Yet even here many a problem is presented ; ;

Oddly enough, this is an amulet against housebreakers, presented to the mem and me by a local rajah in 1949.

A proton magnetic resonance study of polycrystalline Af as a function of magnetic field and temperature is presented.

This circumstance in the patient's case plus the fact that his tactual capacity remained basically in sound working order constitutes its exceptional value for the problem at hand since the evidence presented by the authors is overwhelming that, when the patient closed his eyes, he had absolutely no spatial ( that is, third-dimensional ) awareness whatsoever.

Often work of this sort is presented as calligraphy -- the pure utterance of the brush stroke seeking only absolute painteresque values.

Now the problem is presented piecemeal and sometimes contradictorily.

We also see how the results may be presented, although if n, the number of state variables, is large any tabulation will become cumbersome.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The decoration will be presented by A. Trichieri, Italian consul general in Boston, at a ceremony at 30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the plant, which this year is celebrating its golden anniversary.

An interesting approach to the bedroom is presented, with a young, basic, functional group of chests, dressers and corner units and a canted headboard.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

If the content of faith is to be presented today in a form that can be `` understanded of the people '' -- and this, it must not be forgotten, is one of the goals of the perennial theological task -- there is no other choice but to abandon completely a mythological manner of representation.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

The formal ceremony at which the Awards of Merit are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, and is televised live in more than 100 countries annually.